Trance and visibility at dawn: racial dynamics in Goa’s rave scene

Saldanha, Arun

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“…This 'performance in place' 72 provided a depth of insight, unattainable through discourse alone, into the 'real toand-fro-ing of subjectivity and environment'. 73 Store-bought footballs do not suit the environments where these young men play (as shown in Natascha's reflection at the start of this article). They are readily punctured and can only be repaired with store-bought equipment.…”

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From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: making and playing with plastic-bag footballs

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Mbenna

Gibson

2017

cultural geographies

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The material recalcitrance of plastic bags -evident in their refusal to decompose and their capacity to evade neat disposal -is a widespread source of environmental concern and frustration. Yet throughout the Majority (developing) World, the incessant materiality of plastic affords boys and young men an opportunity to make footballs (soccer balls) out of waste. Made in situ, plasticbag footballs are uniquely suited to local contexts and landscapes -a resourceful technology assembled from otherwise troublesome materials. Plastic-bag footballs are also fluid: perpetually in-the-making and characterized by diverse states of working order. Insights garnered from discussions with young Tanzanian football-makers and players position plastic-bag footballs against neocolonial discourses of poverty and precarity. Meanwhile attentiveness to the socio-material relations of plastic-bag footballs makes plain that they are not inferior technologies. Plastic-bag footballs invite consideration of how humans live, materially, in the Anthropocene. Plastic bags typify the ecological crises of throwaway consumerism and malignant toxicity. Yet, we ask: could it be that plastic-bag footballs exemplify the material resourcefulness, skill, care for things -and even playfulness -needed to cope with these very crises?. AbstractThe material recalcitrance of plastic bags -evident in their refusal to decompose and their capacity to evade neat disposal -is a widespread source of environmental concern and frustration. Yet throughout the Majority (developing) World, the incessant materiality of plastic affords boys and young men an opportunity to make footballs (soccer balls) out of waste. Made in situ, plastic-bag footballs are uniquely suited to local contexts and landscapes -a resourceful technology assembled from otherwise troublesome materials. Plastic-bag footballs are also fluid: perpetually in-the-making and characterized by diverse states of working order. Insights garnered from discussions with young Tanzanian football-makers and players position plasticbag footballs against neocolonial discourses of poverty and precarity. Meanwhile attentiveness to the socio-material relations of plastic-bag footballs makes plain that they are not inferior technologies. Plastic-bag footballs invite consideration of how humans live, materially, in the Anthropocene. Plastic bags typify the ecological crises of throwaway consumerism and malignant toxicity. Yet, we ask: could it be that plastic-bag footballs exemplify the material resourcefulness, skill, care for things -and even playfulness -needed to cope with these very crises?

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From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: making and playing with plastic-bag footballs

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Mbenna

Gibson

2017

cultural geographies

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“…Turning an ethnomusicological lens to the details of programming, repertoire, performance practice, costuming, and movement, I re-centre the artistic elements of the encounter to expand the interpretive position of the general culture analyst. Research has underscored the need to revisit tourism as a performed, embodied, multisensory realm (Connell and Gibson 2008;Gibson 2010;Larsen and Urry 2011;Saldanha 2005;Waitt and Duffy 2010). Tahitian dance presentations offer an optimal vehicle for doing so.…”

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A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild

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Niles³

2017

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“…Newman 1984) had the literacy and authority to define Goan culture in order to distinguish it from Portuguese culture (Sardo 2011). In regard to the scope of their performance in tourism, literature makes no reference to the Gawda, focusing on broader-scale phenomena arising from the transformations in the tourism sector after the annexation of Goa to India, such as: the trance music festivals (Saldanha 2005;D'Andrea 2007;St. John 2011); lifestyle migrants (Korpela 2016); Portuguese heritage and Goa as an exotic destination for Indians (Perez 2006;Trichur 2007;Gupta 2009); and the impact of the tourism industry (Wilson 1997;Alvares 2002;Noronha et al 2002;Breda and Costa 2012).…”

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Religious dances and tourism: perceptions of the “tribal” as the repository of the traditional in Goa, India

Pereira¹

2017

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Trance and visibility at dawn: racial dynamics in Goa’s rave scene

Cited by 84 publications

References 9 publications

From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: making and playing with plastic-bag footballs

From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: making and playing with plastic-bag footballs

A Distinctive Voice in the Antipodes: Essays in Honour of Stephen A. Wild

Religious dances and tourism: perceptions of the “tribal” as the repository of the traditional in Goa, India

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